User manual BUFFALO LS-WSXL LINKSTATION MINI MEDIA SERVER UPDATE DESCRIPTION RELEASE NOTE

[. . . ] As time passes, future user interfaces, updated software, and later versions of this manual may be freely available for download at our web site: http://www. buffalotech. com. If you run into difficulties or need additional help, feel free to contact our technical support. Contact information for Buffalo Technology and our technical support is available on pages 60 and 61. 2 Table of Contents Back Panel Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Using your LinkStation with a PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Using your LinkStation with a Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] In an Active Directory environment, check the Active Directory Domain checkbox and fill in the remaining fields. The Authentication Setup fields will be automatically filled out, so no input is needed there. Once you have finished, press Apply. 22 Advanced Settings Disk Management (Drive Properties) This page shows the properties for the drives in your LinkStation Pro Duo. If you have a USB hard drive plugged into the linkstation, its properties will appear here as well. 23 Advanced Settings Disk Management (RAID Setup) Configure your RAID settings here. 24 Advanced Settings Disk Management (USB hard drives) From here you can see your USB hard drive's system information. If the hard drives' information isn't displayed properly, try restarting your USB hard drives and then restarting your LinkStation. Some USB hard drives must be reformatted from within LinkStation before they can be assigned shares. Select Disk Format from the left-side menu to format your USB hard disk(s). 25 Advanced Settings Disk Management (Disk Check) Disk check checks any of your hard drives for errors. To use disk check, select the disk that you want to check from the target pulldown and click Select Target. Then click on Start Disk Check. 26 Advanced Settings Disk Format To format a hard drive or array, select it from the Target Disk drop box. Choose the file system desired from the File System dropbox (internal drives can only be formatted with XFS). Note that FAT32 has a 4 gigabyte filesize limit for individual files. Mac OS 8 and OS 9 users's passwords should be 9 characters or less. Users of other OSs may have passwords of up to 20 characters. 34 Advanced Settings User Management (changing passwords) To change an account's password, click on the name of the account under User Settings. Note: if a user name and password are used to log into a user's windows computer or domain, the same user name and password should be used when creating the user's account on the LinkStation, or problems accessing shared folders may occur. Enter the desired new password in both boxes and click Apply. 35 WebAccess With Buffalo's WebAccess, you can access your LinkStation from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection. It's easy to access your files, or share them with other people, wherever they may be. WebAccess is set up from within the Configuration GUI. First, select `Web Access', and then `Service Setup' from the menu on the left. To use Webaccess, set `Web Access Service' to Enable. You may enable SSL Encryption if desired. Using `BuffaloNAS. com' is recommended. Otherwise, you'll have to manage your own DNS settings. `Auto-Configure Firewall' is also recommended if your router supports UPnP (most do since 2001). [. . . ] Press OK when you're done. 57 Troubleshooting Disk Errors If LinkStation encounters a disk error, it will be reported in the LinkStation status on the top of any of the Web-Based configuration screens. Run a Disk Scan in the event of this error. If that doesn't work, try a reformat. Reformatting the drive will delete all of the data on it so try to backup any data you can before beginning. [. . . ]